Dr. Lauren Eastwood is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Syracuse University. Her area of expertise is in Sociology of the Environment, with an emphasis on environmental justice, international environmental policy, and civil society engagement in policy-making processes.

• Chapter 1 Civil Society, NGOs and Transnational Corporations: Setting the Stage for International Environmental Policy Negotiations; Chapter 2 The UN: Organizational Structure and Forest Negotiations; Chapter 3 Theoretical and Methodological Framework/Data Collection; Chapter 4 Reform Discourses vs. Local Actualities; Chapter 5 Trade and Environment; Chapter 6 The Activation of the Text: Conceptual Resources at Work; Chapter 7 NGOs and the Struggle for Inclusion;